“When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.”
More from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on Truth
“We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.”
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
“The charlatan is always the pioneer... The quack of yesterday is the professor of tomorrow.”
“What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence, the question is what you can make people believe that you have done.”
“Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.”
“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?”
“It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
“The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.”
“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.”
“Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.”
Others on Truth
Mark Twain
8 quotes“Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.”
Cervantes
8 quotes“Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."~ Miguel de Cerv...”
Aesop
7 quotes“After all is said and done, more is said than done.”
Patrick Rothfuss
7 quotes“Lies are simpler, and most of the time they make better sense.”
Malcolm X
7 quotes“You can't have capitalism without racism.”
Agatha Christie
7 quotes“I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.”
Terry Pratchett
7 quotes“When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present.”
Martin Luther King
6 quotes“A right delayed is a right denied.”
Osho
6 quotes“It is only through silence that truth can be said, because it is only through silence that the truth is heard.”
Henrik Ibsen
6 quotes“A minority may be right a majority is always wrong.”
Lord Byron
6 quotes“When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter " And proved it - 'twas no matter what he said.”
H. L. Mencken
6 quotes“When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.”